Syslinux Puns

installed on a netec 128gb 3.0, didn’t work

my 8gb kingston (it’s a compatible model) didn’t work either

both times i got 3 error messages that flash for a solid 0.1 seconds before yellow lighting my mobo, my fans suddenly surging to full fucking blast, and my power button turning into a vegetable and refusing to work.

so using my spidey senses i was able to notice two keywords in the error messages, “hardware” and “cpu”

going through the trouble shooter just ran lines of code at the speed of light for about a minute before stopping at one that literally said “failed, giving up”

any tips? or is it just rip tails for my computer?

spEciFicAtiOnS: r7 2700x, RTX 2060sc, asus b450, 8gb 2400mhz

Hello all,

Been a while since using my Unraid server due to moving house etc and I have forgotten what the default syslinux.cfg is as I had some overrides in the past and im looking to start fresh so to speak.

Cheers

Hello,

I am trying to dual boot Windows 10 (Veracrypt) with Arch (dm-crypt) on a system with legacy BIOS.

I have found this guide to boot the Veracrypt bootloader with GRUB:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/161689/how-do-i-get-grub2-to-boot-a-truecrypt-encrypted-mbr
(Copy the rescue disk to the /boot partition. Make a grub entry for windows, pointing to the rescue iso, which is booted with syslinux.)

The issue is that after I have entered my password, Windows starts an "Automatic repair" process and does not boot.

I did not start the encryption process. This is the test, before the encryption starts.

Thank you for your help.

A noob needs help here !

I’m currently switching from a standard Arch to a LVM encrypted Arch with the home and var partitions on a HDD and everything else on a SSD. My problem is that syslinux isn’t loading at all and I don’t know where the error is coming from... (I’ve read each line of Syslinux and Grub wikis) I’ve heard that syslinux is a step ahead of grub that’s why I would like to make it work.

My laptop, a msi gs60 2qe, is UEFI and I’m using efibootmgr to configure syslinux (with the command found on the syslinux wiki). I’ve appended the rights entries into into /boot/EFI/syslinux.cfg.

thanks for your help and sorry if my english is bad !

Hi all

I'm trying to make a USB Multi-bootable of all my linux distros with legacy and uefi images.

These images are Systemback images so I've to use two different images of the same distro; one legacy and one uefi.

I used multiboot utility for linux and it does work but not as expected. It messes up the Systemback boot menu.

I know how to install Syslinux on a usb drive but how to replicate those actions for uefi as well.

Yes, i've searched over the internet but the details are daunting and this is my last option so please help me out if you understand my situation.

Thanks :)

I have a mixed environment of Windows, RHEL, and ESXi hosts, each of which we currently use the Syslinux/WDS/TFTP Server with DHCP Scope options in order to accomplish PXE booting BIOS devices.

I have been tasked with upgrading the current PXE environment to also support UEFI, ultimately with the intention to enable Secure Boot after the image process is done.

I have spent the last two weeks studying up on how to approach this and through this I have a much stronger understanding of how Syslinux functions, as well as brainstormed other possible imaging/menu systems to replace Syslinux as it is mostly unsupported now.

I would much prefer to fix the current environment than replace it if at all possible as the backlog is long, but I am open to looking into other options in further detail if it comes down to it, such as FOG and iPXE.

The current issue I am facing: When trying to PXE boot a BIOS device with the scope options pointing to the server and pxelinux.0 I am able to boot into the menu and complete the imaging process. When I instead change it to point to syslinux.efi and switch the computer to UEFI, I get an Unsuccessful Unsupported Option error, PXE18 and sometimes PXE32.

I don't need IP helpers because I am using vendor classes with DHCP scope options, but I am not even really trying to get my environment working for both right now. I would be happy to just get UEFI to work and move everything to only boot UEFI devices, removing the need for vendor class options.

My TFTP root folder for the UEFI setup has:

vesamenu.c32

syslinux.efi

libutil.c32

libcom32.c32

ldlinux.e64

pxelinux.cfg/default

The associated image files

Any ideas on the current setup before I explore trying to use FOG instead would be greatly appreciated.

I have a problem being stuck installing syslinux during installing OS in my usb using multibootusb, is there a fix for this? On another hand YUMI is not detecting my usb device.

Obviously the work hasn't stopped completely, the last release was 6.03 from Oct.6 2014.
Running a multiboot project similar to UNetbootin (without the publicity) I wonder if it's time to switch to Grub. After all, EFI support was only beginning in 2014 but today having none becomes increasingly troublesome.

I burned ubuntu 17 onto USB, plugged it in and booted on my computer. This is what i saw on the page. The pc I'm using is a Gateway model:MX8530

Soooo, I installed Parabola OpenRC with syslinux on a Netbook, and ones select my hard drive in the boot menu, it blinks at me. I have one Big Partition (230Gib) for everything and a Swap Parition (3Gib). The First Parition is marked Bootable in cfdisk. Does anyone know how to Get it Booting? Also if this important, I only installed base-openrc, systemd-libs-dummy and syslinux with pacstrap

Edit: i fixed it, I used this command: syslinux-install_update -i -a -m -c /mnt.

It turns out syslinux did not install the mbr lol

(Root partition needs to be mounted)

I've got an odd one and looking for any ideas that anyone can offer...

I have an existing setup where WDS (Windows 2016) is set up with Syslinux to provide a menu to deploy multiple OSs. Basically, download Syslinux, drop it into the WDS directory, replacing WDS's pxeboot.com with Syslinux's, then have the Syslinux config to point to WDS's renamed pxeboot file as one of the possible menu options. The WDS server is not the DHCP server, but I have the necessary DHCP options configured (66, 67, 119).

All of this works just fine. But now I am adding a new VLAN and it isn't quite working there.

I added a new DHCP scope for the subnet, including the above options, and added another IP Helper on our router.

Now, if a client on the new VLAN tries to PXE boot, it successfully gets an IP address and connects to the WDS server, prompting the "Press F12 for network service boot". But, when I do I get a WDS-generated error "Windows failed to start". The proper IP address of the WDS server is shown, so the client is picking that up just fine. The WDS logs on the server show that a client downloaded boot/x64/pxeboot.com successfully via TFTP, then the same client successfully downloaded boot\x64\bootmgr.exe.

But, I shouldn't even be getting a WDS or Windows'ish error, at least not yet. It should be pushing me into Syslinux like it does for my other clients. This suggests to me that my DHCP and IP Helper is fine, but that WDS isn't serving the right boot image to this subnet. Also, the "Press F12 for network service boot" should be disabled by the WDS server config, but it has reappeared on clients in this subnet.

Is there any configuration within WDS that I am not finding that, for example, tells it to send out different boot images for different subnets that I need to configure? Or anything like that?

Hi all

As a newbie I tried installing arch linux next to windows 10 (using this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide and a whole lot of other links).

Both are running on a separate SSD and have their own EFI partition. The boot order in efibootmgr is correct (I tried disabling the windows entry as well), but it always boots to windows.

Systemd-boot seems to do nothing and boot windows. When using syslinux, windows goes to automatic system repair.

I've created 4 partitions (GPT table) on the SSD /dev/sdd1 -> EFI /dev/sdd2 -> Root (Ext4) /dev/sdd3 -> Swap /dev/sdd4 -> home (Ext4)

the arch.conf for systemd-boot looks like this: > title Arch Linux > linux /vmlinuz-linux > initrd /intel-ucode.img > initrd /initramfs-linux.img > options root=PARTUUID={uuid} rw

Where {uuid} is the PARTUUID of /dev/sdd2

Any suggestions or help is welcome. Thanks in advance!

UPDATE:

[SOLVED] My brand new SSD was broken. Stuck between bad magic number in superblock issue and broken partition tables.

Installed Arch Linux (and systemd-boot) on a new one and got it running within 20 minutes

Hello,

If I set up syslinux / pxelinux on an in place WDS server will i lose the current windows / image options? Such as image windows 7, win 10, etc. Will that still be available in the list? Or will it change the whole lay out and have to be added again?

If I install syslinux /pxelinux can i revert easily and how?

Thank you.

I have Syslinux (6.03) installed on a BIOS system with minimal configuration like described here. This works great aside that it always boots the default label instead of whatever I type in the prompt. I have tried both typing the label name and the boot parameters, as described here. Tabbing while typing label name shows the correct completion. There are no error messages, or any other messages for that matter, it just silently ignores whatever typed on the prompt and boots the default. Any ideas what is going wrong?

Configuration:

PROMPT 1
TIMEOUT 50
DEFAULT arch

LABEL arch
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-zen
    APPEND root=/dev/sda3 rw quiet
    INITRD ../intel-ucode.img,../initramfs-linux-zen.img

LABEL fallback
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-zen
    APPEND root=/dev/sda3 rw
    INITRD ../intel-ucode.img,../initramfs-linux-zen-fallback.img

I have installed DebianDog(Squeeze based, 64bit) on an old laptop, that had Windows installed. The Windows partitions are in tact, and due to it's Puppy Linux like nature, it provides Grub4Dos and Syslinux as bootloaders. I prefer SL, but either will do in this case.
As I myself am used only to Linux, (this computer is for someone else,) and really haven't dealt with dualbooting to be honest, I have no clue how to do this, and all documentation seems to point either to Grub proper, and chainloading. I don't mind doing a bit of work, am not scared off by the shell or getting my hands dirty so to speak, I just don't know where to go/what would be my best option. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.
A few notes, it is a classic, old school bios, and though I forgot to check, I believe it is a 32 bit Win7, but I could be wrong. It is starter edition, if that helps.

I been playing with isolinux all day do get it to do the one of the simplest things which is to get it to load memtest86+.bin. This is the best I could get.

In need of assistance, or at least question since Syslinux probably does the work anyway. But i recently installed Arch on my computer and seem to only be able to use Syslinux as bootloader, not Grub. Currently got /boot in seperate partition with 1GiB in size, formated with Ext2. If i use the same setup with Grub it hungs during boot and only displays "Grub" on the top right corner. Any idea why?

hello

after the recent required microcode adjusments, i started thinking if i should stick to grub or switch to syslinux. i read that grub requires more maintenance and that is a hassle... any suggestoins?

cheers

Hi, I just created a bootable USB for ESXi 6.5 customized dell image with rufus for my Dell R730xd, when I boot to the USB this is what I get:

https://imgur.com/a/1ZQHm

and it just stuck there..

I tried a different USB and it still doesn't go through that part

About to install Windows 10, and I want to make sure I'll be able to boot into it.

SOLVED
The GPT format keeps an MBR header, that's the one I overwrote. The disk is still bootable and everything is fine, I just need to fix the MBR header and I'm golden the protective MBR seems to be fine. Thanks everyone !

I'm an idiot. I was following this tutorial to create a bootable USB with usable storage space left, and I screwed up. I ran printf '\x5' | cat /usr/lib/syslinux/bios/altmbr.bin - | dd bs=440 count=1 iflag=fullblock of=/dev/sda, changing the '\x5' to '\x2' to reflect my partition number but forgot to change the target device. Yes I wrote on my main disk... My disk is a GPT partition table with dual-boot windows and arch, I have no idea of the impact of what I did.

I'm afraid to turn it off now, I didn't expect to have to use this key that soon. Is my install salvageable ?
Any pointers appreciated, thanks.

This is my first time installing Arch, I followed every other step correctly, but I mistyped my boot drive. When I boot I go to syslinux "failed to load ldlinux.c32" error screen. Is there any way I could exit syslinux and edit the configuration file I was working on without reinstalling?

Hey,
I have been unsing ubuntu from usb (since the hard-driver is broken from laptop) and every time i open PC it asks try ubuntu/ install.
Since i can't install i have been trying to use this Linux USB but i can't get access to /root/ folder. Anyone could help?

Dell 6430

fdisk -l /dev/sda

• 1 512mb EF00 EFI System
• 2 2gb 8300 Linux Filesystem (swap)
• 3 295gb 8E00 Linux LVM

LVM:

• volgroup00-lvolroot mounted to /mnt
• volgroup00-lvolhome mounted to /mnt/home

I followed the EFI instructions and followed the same steps I would normally take to install arch.

efivar -l lists the variables correctly

After installing arch I installed syslinux.

• mkdir -p $esp/EFI/syslinux

• cp -r /usr/lib/syslinux/efi64/* $esp/EFI/syslinux

• mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

• efibootmgr -c -w -d /dev/sda -p 1 -l /EFI/syslinux/syslinux.efi -L "Syslinux"

efibootmgr shows Syslinux as 0000

I am pretty stuck here as I've been trying to solve this for 3 hours. Anyone care to throw me a hint?

Solved*** So now I feel like I'm starting to get old. Made a careless mistake. /etc/mkinitcpio.conf already had an uncommented line for hooka that I could not see beyong the first screen. I uncommented a second line. When the machine would boot, I never saw the lvm2 hook being loaded which is why it would never find the root filesystem. After I changed it to only include one uncommented line everything worked. I also had to make my arch.conf for gummiboot have root=/dev/volgroup00/lvolroot

Thanks for all of your help guys.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator

lot of reddit users recommending this software. I've tried fat32 and exFAT

trying to avoid NTFS or ext4 for speed or compatibility reasons.

Its a clean format and every time syslinux is failing to write for debian, ubuntu, and Arch ISOs

The USB drive is 32 gb and empty so space should not even be an issue.

What could be going wrong here? What am I overlooking??

I am running Arch Linux (/ Syslinux bootloader) with 4 partitions - /, /boot, /home, swap. The laptop has 728GB HDD and I am planning to shrink /home partition (315GB) to 100GB and use 215 GB for new Ubuntu install. Could some please point out the steps to follow/correct me?

Steps in mind:

1. boot Ubuntu live disk
2. Mount Arch' /home partition on /mnt
3. Back up all data
4. unmount and use parted to repartition (create two partitions as required)
5. Use resize2fs to shrink filesystem
6. mkfs on new partition for Ubuntu
7. Install Ubuntu by choosing new partition as target

Also, any pointers for dual booting with syslinux / mutiple Linux would be appreciated.

I'm stuck at "Syslinux 4.03 2010-10-22 EDD Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al" when trying to install Debian from a USB stick

I used Rufus to burn the image (which I verified using SHA256) on windows.

Any help is appreciated